I have many fond memories.. Rock Band, the local leaders' dinner, drinking drinking and more drinking (thanks Pauric, beers by the swimming pool at 2am). I am so excited for Vancouver, I wish I was there right now :)
I'd also like to mention the great conversations I had with Pauric, Jack Moffett, my local co-conspirator Meredith, Liz Bacon, and many more! That even solidified this community for me, and it's only been reinforced over the last year through the list, basecamp, and especially twitter. See you all in Vancouver! Matt. On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:43 PM, David Malouf <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi gang, > > I've been thinking a lot about Interaction 09 | Vancouver of late, but every > time I do, I get sucked into the worm hole that is the exhilarating memories > I have of Interaction 08 | Savannah. > > Whether it was Bill Buxton's keynote, the amazing food, the gathering of > amazing people, I'm always drawn to one memory that is mine and that memory > gets me even more psyched to try and top it in 2009 @ Interaction 09. > > Imagine, just after Alan Cooper gives his opening keynote, a small group of > interaction designers are huddled around Alan, but standing next to him is > Bill Buxton, and then comes along Aza Raskin standing next to Greg Petroff > (Interaction 09 chairperson); and Ok, what the hell, I'm standing there > too!!!! The conversation doesn't matter. It was just amazing, to engage with > this amazing mixture of legacy luminaries and game changing > techno-designers. The rest of the conference after that moment was just a > series of blurs with codas of amazing food, and stand up speakers inspiring > even more "hallway" (in quotes b/c the hallways were the historic environs > of Savannah) conversations. > > How could I not return to see if we can pull this off again! And I know some > might think the videos gave them what "they needed", but no one watching the > videos had an experience like the one described above. > > *So I ask again, what was YOUR memory of Ix08 | Savannah?* > > -- dave -- Matt Nish-Lapidus -- personal: [email protected] twitter: emenel ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
